Capturing the Friedmans
Capturing the Friedmans

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In the late 1980's, the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman, mother and housewife Elaine Friedman, and their three grown sons, David Friedman, Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck, Long Island, are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine eventually got divorced - but the sons talk of their father, while also not being ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Capturing the Friedmans:

Arnold Friedman
Elaine Friedman
David Friedman
Jesse Friedman
Seth Friedman
John McDermott

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In the late 1980's, the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman, mother and housewife Elaine Friedman, and their three grown sons, David Friedman, Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck, Long Island, are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine eventually got divorced - but the sons talk of their father, while also not being always there for them, as being a good man. This façade of respectability masks the fact that Arnold was buying and distributing child pornography. Following a sting operation to confirm this fact, the authorities began to investigate Arnold for sexual abuse of the minor-aged male students of his computer classes, which he held in the basement of the family home. Based on interviews with the students, not only was Arnold charged with and ultimately convicted of multiple counts of sodomy and sexual abuse of these boys but so was eighteen year old Jesse, who was mentioned by many as the aggressor of the two in the acts. Arnold admitted that he is a pedophile, but that he did not abuse the boys in his class as charged and convicted. The trial process brought out the dysfunction that previously existed within the family. But the issue of Arnold and Jesse's guilt of these acts is hotly debated among the family, among the authorities, among the media and among the students of the computer classes.

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London Evening Standard - 10/10 by Will SelfWhile with any number of... documentaries one can happily say "wait until it turns up on the small screen", with Capturing the Friedmans it is well worth sitting in the dark to find out the extent to which you think you are being deliberately kept there.
Movie Views - 10/10 by Ryan CracknellCapturing the Friedmans is a film that goes beyond what you're watching on the screen. I left asking questions about how I was viewing it.
Movie Gazette - 10/10 by Anton Bitelinspires in the viewer something which was conspicuously absent from the original trial - reasonable doubt.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) - 10/10 by Judith EgertonThe Friedmans are a case study in family dysfunction.
Hollywood Reporter - 10/10 by Kirk HoneycuttFor certain, things are never black or white, always gray. Yet after viewing this film, one is persuaded that even gray has many shades and hues.
The Brooklyn Rail - 10/10 by Lisa RosmanThe result intersperses interviews with the family and its accusers with footage from the enormous store of home video and film that the Friedmans themselves shot over 30 years to poke at both the accuracy of the charges and the elusive nature of memory.
Washington Post - 10/10 by Ann HornadayJarecki has created a tour de force of narrative ambiguity, and in doing so has made one of the most honest reality shows ever.
Miami Herald - 10/10 by Rene RodriguezThis remarkable, continually surprising documentary turns out to be something far richer and more complex, closer in spirit to "Crumb," another devastating film about a family's gradual self-destruction.
Christian Science Monitor - 10/10 by David SterrittA compulsively watchable movie that's also a provocative inquiry into the ability of the criminal-justice system to determine culpability and truth.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - 10/10 by Sean AxmakerWhat's most devastating in Capturing the Friedmans is how Jarecki puts the sureness of justice into doubt as he shows Truth (with a capital T) at the mercy of perspective and perception, context and emotion.

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